bearing wholesale

Check online, Ebay, Amazon, etc.

Unbelievable how cheap some bearings are, and yes they are hecho en China, but I've never had a problem with one.

Unless this is a critical application, probably be worth a try. Most bearing you buy at the bearing supply are Chinese, probably come from the same source but with a huge mark up.
 
This was 10-12 years ago, but I was a mechanic for a company that had about 30 forklifts. Probably 3/4 of them were propane, the rest were diesel lifts rated at 10K.
The 10K units (they were Caterpillar-branded, BTW), were three-stage units that took a fairly large bearing in the mast, six of them, IIRC. When those needed to be replaced, we took about three guys to the loading dock so that the forklift was at a lower level than the guys who were replacing the bearings. Not a super fun job, not a super quick job, but we had a system to replace them with minimum downtime. I believe the bearings we always used were American-made SKF bearings, which were just a little pricey.
One day the purchasing agent told he he had just butchered a fat pig and he was really crowing about it. He had found some Chinese bearings at a fantastic price and he ordered a bunch of them. So...we started to use these in the mast.
It wasn't long after that where these bearings were being replaced at a fairly quick interval. We didn't need these lifts down and we didn't want to spare the manpower needed to replace these. A quick investigation showed that the SKF bearings each had a total of eight balls in each bearing. The Chinese bearings had six. As far as longevity, there was no comparison. We immediately went back to our American-made bearings.
I'm sure there are a few numbers out there that make no difference, but I'll take the American bearing any day over the Chinese bearing, especially now when it comes to modern wheel bearings. Your mileage will obviously vary.
 
If you have the part numbers I would
suggest the closest office of Motion
Industries. They are located in many
cities just search online for local
office. Call and talk to them. They won't
sell you junk. If you do not have the part numbers they may still he able to help by application or sizes.
 

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